COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS

Detailed explanation-1: -Bill Gates founded the software company Microsoft Corporation with his friend Paul Allen.

Detailed explanation-2: -Inspired by the January cover of Popular Electronics magazine, friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen started Microsoft – sometimes Micro-Soft, for microprocessors and software – to develop software for the Altair 8800, an early personal computer.

Detailed explanation-3: -Bill Gates wanted to call Windows as interface manager Gates had planned to release it under the same name. However, ‘Windows’ name prevailed because it best describes the boxes or computing ‘windows’ that were fundamental to the new operating system.

Detailed explanation-4: -In order to meet a tight deadline, Microsoft purchased Q-DOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) from Seattle Computer Products and revised it, transforming it into MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System), which quickly became the world’s most popular operating system for personal computers.

Detailed explanation-5: -Micro-Soft, renamed Microsoft in 1979, wasn’t founded by Bill Gates alone-his high school friend Paul Allen is the co-founder of the technology giant. Microsoft also wasn’t the first venture by Gates and Paul.